quotations about baseball
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple.
W. P. KINSELLA
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Shoeless Joe
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
PETE ROSE
attributed, Sportswrit
Baseball is a team sport, encoding in its formula for success social and intellectual abilities that individual sports do not require.
TIMOTHY MORRIS
Making the Team
Baseball is a game of long-suffering, and if one doesn't have the endurance to get over the hard times, bad hops, bad luck, failure-at-the-rate-of-70%-or-better hitting, and all the other things that happen that try one's patience, they won't last long in the game.
PETER G. DOUMIT
What I Know about Baseball is What I Know about Life
Learning to hit a baseball is like learning a foreign language. If you want to speak a foreign language without an accent, you have to do it when you're young. After a certain age, it's too late.
JOHN RITTER
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.
EDNA FERBER
"A Bush League Hero"
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
attributed, The Ultimate Baseball Book
The structure of baseball is its art. It's a structure that admits of infinitely complicated possibilities and combinations, within the rigid framework of rules in common, of distances to fences, of worked-out angles, of human proportions. Man is the measure of all things. The Major League ballplayer is the measure of the distances on his field of trade. Given these, he must do or die, win or lose. It's the majesty that dignity imparts.
MARVIN COHEN
Baseball the Beautiful
Baseball is an American icon. It is the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, "In God We Trust," Mount Rushmore, ice cream, apple pie, hot dogs, and rally monkeys. BASEBALL IS AMERICA.
VICTOR ALEXANDER BALTOV
JR., Baseball Is America
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. As I realized years later, that is still the finest theory of hitting yet devised.
TOMMY LASORDA
The Artful Dodger
Baseball is like war. It's no pink tea. Mollycoddlers had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy. A survival of the fittest.
TY COBB
attributed, Baseball in Detroit: 1886-1968
Baseball is something of a ballet, the trouble is that the music is substandard (they use pretty much the same score at the hockey rink) and the performers often spit tobacco juice all over the place.
DAVE SHIFLETT
Houston Chronicle, Apr. 29, 1990
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.
JOHN THORN
"Baseball: Our Game"
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
JOE GARAGIOLA
Baseball Is a Funny Game
Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.
PETE ROSE
My Prison Without Bars
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
HENRY KISSINGER
attributed, Baseball's Greatest Quotations
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
SPARKY ANDERSON
attributed, Late Innings
Baseball is as urban as sparring gladiators in the Colosseum, fighting each other, fighting lions, the scent of terror and failure and blood sickly-sweet in the air. Baseball is as urban as bearbaiting on the south bank of the Thames, a spectacle that competed for shillings with the words of Shakespeare and Jonson.
GEORGE VECSEY
Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
DEBORAH WILES
The Aurora County All-Stars
If basketball is checkers, baseball is chess--and the endless configurations of its statistics are quantum physics!
LIZ HARTMAN MUSIKER
The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports